The homeodomain region of Rag-1 reveals the parallel mechanisms of bacterial and V(D)J recombination

Cell

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-276

  Spanopoulou, Eugenia ^a   Zaitseva, Florina ^a   Wang, Fu Hou ^a   Santagata, Sandro ^a   Baltimore, David ^b   Panayotou, George ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA FRUCTOFURANOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA TRANSPOSITION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0030592523     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81344-6     Document Type: Article

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